“I think the testimony and the video are really shocking. And I’m doing my best not to comment and see what happened,” Biden said
the president of the usa Joe Biden characterized yesterday, Saturday, “shocking” recent testimony and taped evidence presented by lawmakers tasked with investigating the attack on Capitol in 2021chief among which was a video of House leaders pleading for help.
Speaking to reporters during an ice cream stop in Oregon, where he is campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek, Biden called the dossier presented by members of the House investigative committee “pretty shocking.” , which investigates the events of January 6, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol to block the ratification of the Democratic president’s election victory.
“I think the testimony and the video are really shocking. And I try my best not to comment and see what happened. But this is (…) I think this is shocking,” Biden told reporters.
“But if I say more than that, you will ask me – and rightly so – if I’m trying to influence the attorney general (Merrick Garland). It’s not about that. I haven’t spoken to him at all,” he added.
On Thursday, the US House of Representatives investigative committee into the attack on the Capitol, which consists of 7 Democrats and 2 Republicans, released video showing congressional officials desperately asking for help during the invasion.
In what is expected to be the last hearing of the impeachment committee before November’s crucial midterm elections for the US Congress, lawmakers showed previously unreleased videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others who had been taken to a safe place.
One of the videos shown, some of which were provided by Pelosi’s family, shows her on the phone with Republican former US Vice President Mike Pence.
“When I talked to him, I said, ‘I’m so scared for you that you’re still in the Capitol,'” Pelosi said yesterday in comments she made during an event in San Francisco.
Pence told her the Secret Service thought it would attract more attention if he and his entourage left the Capitol, Pelosi added. “God knows what could have happened if that convoy got out there,” he noted.
The House of Representatives’ seven-Democrat and two-Republican investigative committee voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump to testify under oath about the Capitol attack.
If Trump does not comply, then he could face jail time.
Under federal law, failure to comply with a subpoena to testify is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 12 months in prison. If the committee requests a subpoena and it is ignored, the full House is asked to vote on whether to refer the case to the Justice Department to decide whether to press charges.
Trump called the US House of Representatives’ investigative committee a “fiasco” shortly after it voted unanimously to subpoena him to testify under oath about his role in the bloodshed.
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